Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
Let me start off by saying where I'm at. I'm currently a college student on break, I'll be going into my second year. I really flourished when I was up at college, as it was a much more accepting community and one where I just generally fit into more.
Ever since I've come home, my stress levels have been high. I used to have a therapy session about once a month, but since the beginning of summer, I'm back to every other week.
Around the beginning of July, it's like I've felt this massive weight attach itself to me. It constantly feels like I'm on the brink of an attack, but I can't find one specific trigger for it. I've been reflecting, trying desperately to figure it out so I can cope with it, and I think I finally figured it out. I need to let it out but it's two weeks til my next appointment.
My grandmother recently had open heart surgery. It went fine, but for a while it was possibility that something could go wrong. She's "okay" now, but she's in pain. I think it's serving as a reminder that one day I am going to lose her. My mother is also older, and the same goes for her. After all, my first year of college is over, life is marching on and I can't stop it.
Every time I think about my future, my chest aches. I honestly can;t imagine it, and I used to be ecstatic about it. I don't know how things went so wrong so fast but they have and now I don't know how to get them back on track.
If anyone has any advice/nice words, they'd be greatly appreciated. If not, thanks for taking the time to read this.
Ever since I've come home, my stress levels have been high. I used to have a therapy session about once a month, but since the beginning of summer, I'm back to every other week.
Around the beginning of July, it's like I've felt this massive weight attach itself to me. It constantly feels like I'm on the brink of an attack, but I can't find one specific trigger for it. I've been reflecting, trying desperately to figure it out so I can cope with it, and I think I finally figured it out. I need to let it out but it's two weeks til my next appointment.
My grandmother recently had open heart surgery. It went fine, but for a while it was possibility that something could go wrong. She's "okay" now, but she's in pain. I think it's serving as a reminder that one day I am going to lose her. My mother is also older, and the same goes for her. After all, my first year of college is over, life is marching on and I can't stop it.
Every time I think about my future, my chest aches. I honestly can;t imagine it, and I used to be ecstatic about it. I don't know how things went so wrong so fast but they have and now I don't know how to get them back on track.
If anyone has any advice/nice words, they'd be greatly appreciated. If not, thanks for taking the time to read this.
as you live life you become capable of coping with things that you cannot cope with now. So a lot of fears about what will happen are not relevant. There's just no point worrying too much. :)
Don't feel like you have to feel a certain way right now. Just feel how you feel. Your emotions will work themselves out if you keep yourself as stress free as possible and allow yourself to heal from what you have been through. I'm glad your grandmother is going to be okay. I miss mine a lot so give yours a big hug for me.